Standardized Assessment

Standardized Assessment Paper In the practice of psychiatry, occupational therapy (OT) practitioners use standardized assessments to further their knowledge to help their clients. Two particular standardized assessments frequently used are the Kohlman Evaluation Of Living Skills (KELS) and Allen Cognitive Level Screen (ACLS-5). OT practitioners employ both assessments to find out what appropriate measures must be taken for the particular client. Early defined the purpose of the KELS, by saying, “asses several skills in the areas in the areas of personal care, safety and health, money management, transportation, use of a telephone, and work and leisure (Early, 2017 p. 431). The whole assessment revolves around the patient's competence,

In KELS the practitioner must ask a question to a client and have the client perform a task, while ACLS-5 has the practitioner perform a leather lacing stitches. The success of the assessment relies upon the practitioner way of motivating a client; both assessments need the client's full participation to for proper data for evaluation (Early, 2017). The task-oriented portion of both assessments is evident. KELS uses daily tasks for its assessments such a task as making a change to simulate a transaction where the evaluator will present a product with a price. Then the client pretends to buy an item, giving the evaluator the currency needed for the product and the client counts the change provided by the evaluator, thus simulating an IADL (Early, 2017). The ACLS-5 task is to have the client run a stitch into a leather. During the assessment, the stitching patterns become complicated during the progression of the

Kazazi et al. used “35 hospitalized and 51 outpatient schizophrenic patients and 35 healthy individuals” with their research regarding the living skills of schizophrenic patients (Kazazi et al. 2012, pp.14). Schubmehl et al. used “sample of 193 acute psychiatric inpatients” and “A subsample of 31 participants” (Schubmehl et al. p.169) in their research “The role of executive functions and psychiatric symptom in the Allen Cognitive Levels.” Both assessments used a large population of the patients’ who both have psychiatric symptoms and provided empirical evidence used for quantifying